12 Days since last U.S. Fatal Helicopter Accident
Kenny Keller marks 12 days without a U.S. fatal helicopter accident and argues that pilot knowledge and safety culture are what prevent crashes. He points to resources like the Helicopter Safety Team and FAA accident library, then pitches his ground-school courses.
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12 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes and 52 seconds since the last helicopter fatal accident in the U.S. i'm Kenny Keller, the Crater Helicopter Line Ground School Short video Tonight. I just wanted to share this. I'm kind of excited, in a good mood. 12 days without a fatal helicopter accident, that's pretty important, right? And we had great feedback and the views have went crazy on the video I did Monday night, the live video where we did a debrief on a past helicopter accident. And helicopter accidents are always tragic, but we can learn from them, right? And we know that we're in another close to record year in helicopter fatal accidents. So the way that we're going to be able to change that is US pilots, we're the ones that's going to change it. Not waiting on the FAA or the NTSB or somebody else to make some big change. We make the change, right? So I want to show you the quick links to the not only the FAA lessons library on the rotorcraft accidents, but also the US Helicopter Safety Team website. So let's take a look at it. And what I want to show you is if you're a ground school member or not, you can go to our site. If you're ever curious to go find these sites, we've linked to them from our site at Helicopter Online Ground School. So right here at the top of the page, whether you're on this is a desktop. If you were on a mobile device, you'd see a little some lines up here in the right hand corner. You click on it to get these icons. So you just click right there. U.S. helicopter Safety Team. So not only is there a link there to the helicopter safety team website, there's also a link there for the FAA Lessons Learned Rotorcraft Accidents library. So two links. And of course you're welcome to search on Google and find these pages on your own. But just today I had awesome, another conversation with one of the guys from the U.S. helicopter Safety Team and we're pretty happy about the collaboration. He said, hey, did you mind putting a link on your site to both of these websites? And I said, absolutely. So I just made a quick, easy page, real simple and you can click right there on either one of those links to go take a look at these websites. And so I do find it interesting. We'll go back to the safety team website. This was our discussion on the phone today. He said, 12 days, man, 12 days since our last fatal accident. And he said, isn't this what it's all about, really? It's about people going home at the end of the day, fathers can go home and be fathers, husbands can go home and be husbands. And you know, and I, and I resonated with that when he said that to me on the phone, because that's right. I mean my, I was a law enforcement officer became, before I became a helicopter pilot. And you know, that was our always, our motto was the main thing is to go home safe at the end of the day. What's the same thing in safety in and around helicopters, right? We all want to go at home at the end of the day. So the US Helicopter safety team has a cool website with a ton of resources here. There's lots of things you can go look at. There's articles, there's videos, a lot of great information if you want to stay informed and become more knowledgeable and, you know, keep abreast of what's going on. And real quick, we'll also take a look at the FAA lessons learned. Now I've mentioned this in the video the other day and I just talked to him again today and he said they're going to be adding more rotorcraft accidents in here between now and Heli Expo. They have several that are going to be going in there. So there's a ton of information and you can search a lot of accidents fixed wing right now, but they're going to have more and more coming in for the rotorcraft and there's different things you can take a look at. There's one specific accident they talk about where it is a bird strike. And I think we might do a video on that and talk about bird strikes here in the near future. But this video tonight, I just wanted to make it real quick to let you know about these resources so you know where to go and know how to find them. So again, all you got to do is go to helicopterground.com, go up to the corner, look for us helicopter safety team. You can click on the icon here even if you want to, or go down and click on their link down below. So lots of great information. And this is how we're going to change, change the future, right? This is how we're going to help keep ourselves safe and keep ourselves out of trouble. It is really and truly all about the knowledge, right? It's about the knowledge. So as of the making of this video, 12 days, 8 hours, 20 minutes since the last fatal helicopter accident. Let's make that, let's make that dude go for months, you know, let's make the goal that we're going to be the ones that are going to change. We as pilots, we as instructors, whether you're a private pilot, commercial pilot, you're a CFI out working in the world, you know, we all talk about safety and I think the biggest way to stay safe is 100% knowledge. Hands down. It is. Alright, well hope that helps you out a little bit. Let you know exactly where those links are. Again, I encourage you to go to those pages over time. Knowledge, man, it's all about knowledge. And I stated in the video the other night, on Monday night, I swear at 25% becoming a pilot is flying the helicopter. 75% of it is the knowledge. And in that conversation today, I was, I was talking again about that LTE video that I saw back when I was training many years ago at one of my first helicopter jobs. And I'm still trying to locate that video where they were going around and, and asking pilots, what is lte? Seasoned helicopter pilots that would laugh and giggle and couldn't spit out the actual terminology. And on the spot, tell you what LTE is, some of them might have been just nervous because they've been put in the spot. Some of them maybe the knowledge has, has slipped with time. Right. So any of these different aerodynamic principles and the helicopter emergencies and all these things that we study, if they're not fresh in your mind, what are you going to do when you're in an aircraft and something goes wrong? So again, we'll take a look at my page one more time. So up here is enroll, where you can enroll for any one of our courses. Private commercial instrument certified flight instructor. And you can also either order one or the other of our Amazon number one best selling books where we just, we bought the books for you and we just ask you to pay for shipping and handling to get you to the book. So there you can see all the courses and there's a free radio course down there on the bottom. Coffee with Kenny. Those are our past posts. There's gonna be a few more come out. There's 297 of those 297 days of the Coffee with Kenny. All videos on YouTube. They're now blog posts and they're getting podcasted as well. So we've started releasing those on podcasts. The First, I think 25 or so are out on the podcast and a new one comes out each day. For those of you that like audio podcast, my library is where you go when you're a member to find the training that you have for your membership. Flight training page will be updating the instruments coming back in January 2020 we'll be back out flying in the instrument flying with our helicopter Land Ground School members. Contact us and then in there again is the link for the US Helicopter Safety Team. When you click on that you have a link to that page for the US HST or you can also use the link to go to the FAA Lessons to learn Rotorcraft Accent Library so just a favor, put your comments down below and make sure you subscribe to the channel and when you subscribe click that little bell. That way you'll get notified of each time that we put out a new video we have lots of lots of cool stuff in store. We're always moving ground school forward, always looking for new things to do and new things to introduce and how to always try to keep the keep the training exciting and try to keep you all motivated. So go check us out helicopterground.com subscribe click the bell and we shall see you in the next video.
